| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: disposition is to ask the captain to command the ship. So far as
profits go, they think the captain has no more right than the
cabin boy to speculative gains; he should do his work for his pay
whether it is profitable or unprofitable work. There is little
balm for labour discontent in these schemes for making the worker
also an infinitesimal profiteer.
During my journey in Italy and France I met several men who were
keenly interested in business organisation. Just before I
started my friend N, who has been the chief partner in the
building up of a very big and very extensively advertised
American business, came to see me on his way back to America. He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: had not much to worry about from the young braves, but the hawk-eyed chief was
dangerous.
And he was right. Presently the stalwart chief heard, or saw, a drop of water
fall from the loft. It came from the hunter's wet coat. Almost any one save an
Indian scout would have fancied this came from the roof. As the chief's gaze
roamed everywhere over the interior of the cabin his expression was plainly
distrustful. His eye searched the wet clay floor, but hardly could have
discovered anything there, because the hunter's moccasined tracks had been
obliterated by the footprints of the Indians. The chief's suspicions seemed
to be allayed.
But in truth this chief, with the wonderful sagacity natural to Indians, had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: that protection which her native country was too
mean to afford.
The man at once took his old wife to see his new
one, who was also a fugitive slave, and as they all
knew the workings of the infamous system of
slavery, the could (as no one else can,) sympathise
with each other's misfortune.
According to the rules of slavery, the man and
his first wife were already divorced, but not morally;
and therefore it was arranged between the three
that he should live only with the lastly married
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